Animal Rights March Zurich: Thousands for animal rights
The worldwide bloodbath caused by factory farming, hunting, fishing, animal testing and so on can be brought to an end.
Official Animal Rights March Zurich
On 17 August 2019, tens of thousands will once again take to the streets worldwide for animal rights. And so will Zurich!
The Animal Rights March Zurich is intended to be an expressive, peaceful demonstration opposing the discrimination against animals. It is an expression of the belief that the interests of „other sentient beings“ must also be respected.
Rights should also be extended to non-human beings. Animals too have the right not to be killed, captured, tortured or sold. Animals are sentient beings that feel pain, suffering, grief and joy.
The event was founded in 2016 by Surge, an animal rights organisation in England. The march confirms the success of the vegan movement each year, but also serves as a stage to show solidarity with exploited animals.
In 2016, Surge brought together 2,500 people who marched peacefully through the centre of London, and in 2018 it even managed to mobilise 28,000 people worldwide to demonstrate in 25 cities across the globe and to demand an end to all animal oppression.
The march is an expression of a changing society in its relationship with animals and a model for a world that not only talks about animal welfare, but also lives it.
IG Wild beim Wild
Be part of this wonderful movement too and support the animals by sharing the event with your friends, inviting them along and, not least, by marching with us on 17 August at 1.30 pm from Helvetiaplatz in Zurich.
More on the subject of recreational hunting: What the research says about this is shown by Hunting fact-checked: the state of research.
The position of IG Wild beim Wild: IG Wild beim Wild rejects recreational hunting. Our model is the canton of Geneva, which has managed without recreational hunting since 1974: without hunting seasons, without hunting dogs, without driven hunts, without high seats, without the animal cruelty and crime that go hand in hand with hunting season elsewhere. What has worked there for over fifty years disproves every position paper by JagdSchweiz. An association that bases its policy on claims it refutes in its own documents is not a professional organisation, but a factory for misinformation.
